Greenglass House

At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.

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This is an amazing book 📚 filled with action suspense and imagination as the two children try to find out why guests our showing at unexpected times. This book is just so cool 😎 and I love it 😍. I have already read it 10 times!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😜😍😜😍😜😜😍😍😍😜

My favorite children's novel of 2014. Unique characters, friendships, unexpected twists, set in an old house during a snowstorm. Cozy, mysterious, and gentle, I was hoping that all would end well for everyone involved.

This made me feel as if I were actually there, in that old, comfortable inn, surrounded by snow. I liked the book until the end, which was a little too weird for me and somewhat spoiled the story. Warm and fuzzy, with a mystery for added enjoyment.

Young Milo, expecting a cozy Christmas vacation with his mother and father in an old "smuggler's inn" that they run, is suddenly sharing it with six very odd and unusual guests. These guests have secrets and a connection. Milo and Meddy, a new friend that also appears among the guests, use their newly discovered talents at sleuthing to ferret out the reasons for the guests collective presence.

Creepy, yet cozy, full of clues and with a startling ending this book will appeal to middle grades for sure.

A compelling mystery with a series of side-mysteries to keep things surprising, based around a cast of eccentric characters who show up mysteriously.

An atmospheric setting: a snowed-in cliff-top inn for smugglers in a fictional town the author clearly loves and was developing online before this book was conceived (I was intrigued enough to go looking to learn this after finishing the book). A house with a history and character. A town with wonderful folklore.

An interesting and capable young protagonist full of yearnings and interests who is willing to learn and grow. With loving, intriguing parents (they run an inn for smugglers, after all, and adopted a son from China). And with a new friend who is helping him develop by engaging him in a live, improvised version of her favorite role-playing game.

A strong sense that even the most ordinary, mundane objects can be treasures with the right stories and histories, as can the people who find them. Every page was infused with a longing for lore.

Writing that deftly feels both eloquent and approachable, sophisticated and everyday.

From the very start, I got caught up in Milo's story and didn't want to put it down.

On a cold winter's night five suspicious guests show up at Greenglass Inn. All of them have a hidden agenda regarding the secrets this house hides, so when things start to go missing it is up to Milo and Meddy to solve the mystery. To do this they don the mantle of role-playing characters, investigating matters secretly. By playing the blackjack Negret, Milo gradually finds new confidence in himself. The game allows him to come to terms with some personal issues, especially the fact that he's a Chinese boy adopted by a Caucasian family; he loves his family and is loved, but is extremely conscious of what others think. Meddy, as Sirin, acts as an invisible guide, helping him in his quest. Reality is, this is no game though, and while the majority of the book is quite fun, the end brings some real danger. Milo's in a unique position, he's a child, and he grew up in the house, so these strangers end up revealing things to him. Each adds a piece to the overall puzzle, and there are quite a few surprises for readers. Greenglass House is a great mystery that stuffs a ton of adventure into a small space, it has its own unique fables, and throws in a ghost story for good measure.

This is a really fun mystery set at a smugglers' inn around Christmastime. Some thefts in the inn cause twelve-year-old Milo and one of the inn's guests to put on their detective caps and investigate the inn's guests. The characters are interesting and well-developed, the setting is SUPER cozy, and it's just a totally fun read.